On Friday 10 April 2009 17:54:41 Ian Clarke wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Matthew Toseland
> <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> wrote:
> > We will lose this when moving to git anyway. Building Freenet involves 
running
> > unit tests, and running build.xml. We can protect build.xml but we don't 
want
> > to have to protect the unit tests ... so it's just not sensible
> > security-wise, especially if we have an external provider hosting the 
version
> > control system.
> 
> Why can't we sandbox the build process?  I see no good reason why we
> should lose this.

Because all sandboxes are leaky. For example, you can escape a VM, that was 
one of the worries with the recent compromise on emu.
> 
> >> - The bugtracker is also useful, I don't know whether it is hosted on emu 
or
> >> somewhere else.
> >
> > This we will be able to continue. The website uses php, the bugtracker 
uses
> > php, we will need to get a php host somewhere.
> 
> Of course we may want to switch away from Mantis.

In which case we will need to migrate our existing bugs.
> 
> Ian.
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